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...In the north of England, the West Yorkshire borough of Calderdale near Leeds has teamed up with genealogists Fraser & Fraser to locate estate executors or living relatives of the deceased owners of properties...
...In the mid-1950s, George Weidenfeld decided that his commercially fragile young business should publish a learned work of diplomatic history by an unknown German-American émigré....
...She stood before them in crimson undergarments, “the liturgical colour of martyrdom in the Catholic Church”, according to biographer Antonia Fraser. It was Mary’s final performance....
...Sales of these expensive and relatively unknown watches were slow, until Patek Philippe’s popularity soared in the late 1980s....
...“Allocation decisions to passive [index funds including ETFs] don’t appear to be slowing at all,” said Mr Fraser-Jenkins....
...The flurry of announcements sent the price of bitcoin — which was only invented by an unknown cryptographer in 2008 — to a new high of $48,277 on Thursday....
...After an aggressive debt-fuelled spree buying up stakes in retailers from Hamleys to House of Fraser, Baugur was now in peril....
...Richard Waters Financial Services Trend to watch The consequences of Brexit remain the big unknown in financial services....
...This penal system has informed the world’s view of the region ever since: “The very word Siberia is enough to make the blood run chill,” wrote the Scottish traveller Sir John Foster Fraser in 1902....
...By the time that Wirecard collapsed last month, €1.9bn of its cash probably did “not exist”, the company said, and an as yet unknown amount of other assets....
...In 1815, when the Scottish officer William Fraser took over the office of the deputy resident in Delhi, he and his brother James Baillie Fraser employed a group of artists to make what Yuthika Sharma describes...
...So who were these riders prepared to spend upwards of £11,000 to take on the unknown?...
...Fraser Nelson: There is no doubt, there has never been a better time to be in the business of news, because people have never been more interested in what’s going on....
...Although polyhalite is a relatively unknown product, Sirius has secured commitments to purchase up to 8.2 tonnes a year of output from the mine, where it hopes to deliver about a 1,000 jobs....
...Christmas profit warnings in December are not unknown; in 2013, Debenhams issued one on New Year’s Eve. But most think the real cost will be revealed in January....
...However Philip Day, owner of Edinburgh Woollen Mill, had previously bid an unknown amount to acquire the chain and its pension liabilities and keep them as a going concern....
...Mr Fraser said the banks willing lend to $1.5bn would ultimately dictate how much extra cash the company needs to raise....
...Sanpower, a small conglomerate with a background in commercial real estate, lost control of House of Fraser last year when the high-end UK retail chain it bought in 2014 fell into administration....
...Microsoft seals $7.5bn GitHub deal When Andreessen Horowitz, one of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital firms, pumped $100m into a largely unknown software start-up six years ago, it looked like a symptom...
...A final unknown is Brexit....
...But how the estimate was calculated is unknown. Getting back to reality, let’s not forget why Musk had to release a long blog in the first place....
...Comex) down -0.01 at 3.13 10-year government bond yields (%) US 2.34% Germany 0.36% CDS (closing levels) Markit iTraxx Europe +0.24bps at 49.19bp Markit iTraxx Xover -0.29bps at 238.3bp Markit CDX IG [Unknown...
...House of Fraser: a Chinese takeover that’s gone awry It’s been well documented that Sanpower, the Chinese investment group that bought House of Fraser in 2014, has had a hard time getting the 169-year-old...
...(FT) House of Chaos Bond investors in House of Fraser, the 169-year-old UK retailer, should be pretty upset with the latest changing of controlling stake at the group....
...The billionaire was also said by Mr Blue to have arrested a decline in the Sports Direct share price by placing a private phone call to an unknown party....
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